Human Bytes have signed a strategic partnership with Netherlands-based Kepler Vision, who offers one of the most widely used computer vision technologies for fall detection across Europe.
One of the biggest challenges across the Nordic healthcare is the current and future lack of nurses. There is a trend where hospitals are built with only single beds instead of two or four bedrooms, which require the nurses to supervise significantly more rooms to monitor the well-being of the patients or elderly.
Better patient outcomes
An important issue currently being faced is when a patient falls out of bed. Currently there is no fall-detection alarms and the patient can stay unattended and in pain for an unnecessary long time, especially in nursing homes.
“We have a very well established and strong market position in Benelux and Southern Europe, and see the Nordic market as a key area for expansion in the immediate future. Human Bytes is known to be the leading dedicated solution provider of AI to healthcare in the Nordics, why it was an easy choice to engage with them,” says Harro Stokman CEO of Kepler Vision Technologies, and continues “With combining Human Bytes with our Kepler Night Nurse, we hope to contribute to sustain the high level of care that the Nordics is known for, together with better patient outcomes and health economics.”
Standard API interface
The Kepler Night Nurse is based on Computer Vision combined with Artificial Intelligence
The Kepler Night Nurse is based on Computer Vision combined with Artificial Intelligence. A simple camera will monitor the patient 24/7 and give an alert if the patient has fallen out of bed, has left the room, not returned from the bathroom or is awake during the night, so a nurse can help.
The Kepler Night Nurse will ensure the maximum privacy and can integrate easily via a standard API interface into current systems used in the hospitals or nursing homes, avoiding the staff to have yet another device to deal with.
Very mature algorithm
“Kepler Vision is a strong partner for us, who brings in the most real world data and experience from computer vision. The Kepler Night Nurse AI solution holds great potential, to support nurses at the general ward or in the nursing homes, to avoid false alarms and attend the patients when needed.”
Says Ulrik Therkildsen, CEO of Human Bytes and continues, “For example in the psychiatry, this AI solution can be of great value to maximise the patient’s recovery through sleep, and not unnecessary disturb them for routine checks in the middle of the night. Most of all I like the simplicity of this solution, that seamless interact with existing systems, with a very mature algorithm that almost eliminates false alarms.”